On today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' we have Leanne Maskell. Leanne is an ADHD coach, author, and activist, having presented to the World Health Organization on improving global access to support for ADHD. 

Previously working in mental health and disability law, Leanne set up ADHD Works to empower as many people as possible to learn how to make ADHD work for them through books, courses, talks, and coaching.

During today's conversation, Kate and Leanne talk about

• Advocating for adjustments in the workplace
• Masking ADHD in the workplace
• Talking about your ADHD diagnosis at work
• Reasonable diversity adjustments, training and policies in the workplace
• Corporate neurodiversity
• Celebrating achievements alongside RSD
• Knowing our rights within the workplace
• Burnout and our ADHD brains
• Advocacy and our sense of social justice

Kate's new four-part on-demand workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

Welcome to a recap episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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Neuroscience explains so much about our ADHD brain and the many traits, tendencies, and behaviours that come along for the ride. The more we understand our beautiful yet complex neurobiology, the more empowered we are to make sustainable and manageable changes to better enhance our lives.

So, I'm delighted to welcome this week's guest, Nicole Vignola, a neuroscientist, author, consultant, and brain performance coach, to the podcast.

Nicole's first book, Rewire: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life is available now.

On today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Nicola speak about:

• The science behind meditation
• The brain's negativity bias
• The function of the brain's 'DMN' AND 'TPN'
• How self-interruptions affect our daily life
• The power of meditation for emotional regulation
• Nicole's tips for feeling more calm and positive
• Feeling more self-aligned
• The damaging effects of your phone and social media
• Ways to be more mindful of your phone usage
• Understanding dopamine better
• The life-changing benefits of a healthier sleep routine
• How hydrating first thing can be essential for the ADHD brain
• How visualising works in the brain and how it can improve our habits
• Aphantasia and learning how to visualise

You can find out more about Nicole via her website, www.nicolesneuroscience.com.

My other guest on today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing episode is Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund. We are at the cusp of new understandings about combining medical disciplines so we can understand ADHD in girls and women better through the lens of both menstrual cycles, hormones and psychiatry. This is for the lost generation of women who never got answers and for the future generations of girls who deserve better medical knowledge and research.

Lotta is an associate professor in psychiatry at the Department of Women and Children's Health at Uppsala University and an affiliated researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. She is the author of six popular science books on ADHD and addiction, and her book ADHD Girls to Women - Getting on the Radar has been translated into several European languages, English and Korean.

On this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Dr Lotta Skoglund and Kate spoke about:

• Feeling abandoned by healthcare professionals after an ADHD diagnosis
• Why healthcare professionals should be working together to help patients
• How an understanding of ADHD can change your health outcomes
• Building autonomy to feel more empowered with our ADHD
• Improving female-based medical research and ADHD
• The importance of talking about your experiences with hormones to help others
• Precision and patient-led medicine
• Connecting Hormones and Psychiatry to help more ADHD women
• Why fluctuating hormones and cycles need to be part of the bigger health picture
• Getting to know your unique hormone cycle traits
• How you can create a personalised health journal

You can learn more about Lotta's work via her website, www.borgskoglund.com and Letterlife.

Look at some of Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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This week’s ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' guest is Kelly Rompel.

Kelly is a pharmacist, author, and Functional Medicine and Epigenetic Consultant. She is the author of “Don’t Tell Me To Relax”, host of the Rebel Whitecoat Podcast, and founder of Wildroots Wellness.

Kelly's holistic approach combines her knowledge of pharmacy and science with her love for functional medicine, epigenetics, and energy healing. 

During this week's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom episode, Kate and Kelly speak about: 

• How epigenetics can play into your ADHD
• Genetic testing and ADHD
• Foods and supplements you can incorporate to manage ADHD
• Supplements to help ADHD and Anxiety
• Blood sugar level management
• Helping our anxiety through diet change and lifestyle
• Increasing GABA and serotonin levels
• The BEST supplements for ADHD
• Taking a holistic and well-rounded approach to your health
• How Kelly came to learn about epigenetics

Look at some of Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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Dopamine sensitivity and sugar addiction are familiar traits of ADHD. Perhaps using sugar to self-medicate, re-energise, or dopamine-seek may be a pattern you relate to? 

If so, you'll want to listen to this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing, with guest Dr. Nicole Avena, a research neuroscientist and nutrition, diet, and addiction expert. Her research focuses on nutrition during early life and pregnancy and women’s health. She has done groundbreaking work developing models to characterize food addiction and the dangers of excess sugar intake. 

Dr Avena's latest book, Sugarless, covers the latest science on sugar addiction and how to overcome it. On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Dr Avena and Kate talk about:

• The link between sugar addiction and dopamine-seeking brains
• The effects of dopamine released by sugar consumption on the brain 
• How sugar affects your body and your health 
• Parenting and teaching our kids nutritional choices and consuming processed sugar 
• Having a susceptible dopamine system
• Our busy society doesn't lend itself to healthy eating

You hear me talking about an integrative and more holistic healthcare approach a lot on the Podcast, so I'm delighted to welcome Dr Gemma Newman (The Plant Power Doctor), a best-selling author, podcast host, and GP who embraces this approach with her patients.

Although Gemma is a medical GP, she's also interested in holistic health, plant-based nutrition, and lifestyle medicine.

Gemma's second book, Get Well, Stay Well: The Six Healing Health Habits Everyone Should Know , combines medicine, psychology, and nutrition. It provides simple, actionable tips and a unique wellness template to help you transform your life.

On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Gemma and Kate speak about:

• The role of functional medicine and ADHD
• How to talk to your GP regarding an ADHD diagnosis
• Self-compassion as a neurodivergent person
• Gemma's journey to spiritual practice, holistic and functional health
• Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping and the many benefits for ADHD
• How does our emotional and spiritual wellbeing impact our physical health

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ADHD can bring many opposing challenges and connotations and can feel like heavy energy to deal with. Yet, through gentle curiosity, we can find new options to reprogram our thinking and switch our emotional energy to create a happier, calmer and more fulfilling family life.

Despite the challenges, we can focus on what we're proud of, which lift us up. As parents, we can create more internal strength and greatness—life can be easier than we believe.

This week’s ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom Podcast guest is Avigail Gimpel, a mum of six, a special education teacher, and a college lecturer. Avigail also supports adults with ADHD in identifying the root causes of their symptoms and shares the tools you need to journey joyfully toward your goals. Her new book, Hyper Healing, Show Me the Science: Making Sense of Your Child's ADHD Diagnosis, is now out.

During today's episode, Kate and Avigail speak about:

• Self-belief, getting unstuck and reinforcing old stories
• Creating new habits
• Positive messaging for both ADHD children and adults
• Epigenetics, trauma and how that impacts our ADHD
• How instant gratification personality plays into ADHD
• Lesser known explanations neurological explanations for what is and isn't ADHD
• Why brain scans don't always work for the ADHD brain
• External environmental factors of ADHD
• Self-empowering ourselves and our kids to help them thrive with ADHD
• The effect of negative messaging in childhood and the power of a compliment
• Breaking generational cycles and habits and then forgiving ourselves for being human

Kate's new four-part on-demand workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

Welcome to a recap episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

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This week's 'mashup' summer episode features two incredible intuitive and energy specialists helping (plenty of neurodivergent) people embrace new mindset beliefs and release old stories.

First is Catherine Morgan, a multi-award-winning qualified Financial Adviser, Certified Financial Coach, Financial Abuse Specialist ®, Inherited family trauma healer, and financial therapist who specialises in helping women feel more deserving of holding money through somatic, therapeutic, and practical tools.

And then we have Caroline Britton. Have you ever had someone come into your life and help you make life-changing shifts? Someone who's helped you reveal your most authentic self while guiding you through shedding old beliefs, energies, thoughts and stories that have kept you stuck for decades?

I'm lucky to say I have, and she is today's guest. Caroline is a powerful Intuitive Coach and an expert in waking up leaders, entrepreneurs, and public figures to live a life of freedom, purpose, and joy. She specialises in being an agent of change for people ready to transform their lives. Her innate gifts to unlock people's connection, potential, and power have transformed thousands of lives.

On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Caroline chat about:

• Finding your inner power
• Trusting and using your intuition
• The importance of tapping into your inner voice for clarity and guidance
• Creating space and silence to access the guidance
• Connecting back in and listening in for inner wisdom
• Mechanisms for creating more energetic shifts and discovering what it is you desire
• Locking in new beliefs and connecting to a new identity

You can connect with Caroline on Instagram. 

Look at some of Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

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This is one to share with your team, office, employers or employees!

On this short podcast episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom, I talk to Hester Grainger, a neurodiversity consultant, co-founder of Perfectly Autistic and Perfectly ADHD, a radio presenter and former TV presenter diagnosed with ADHD in her forties, about changing the way we look at neurodivergence in the workplace, raising awareness of what neurodiversity looks like in the office and showing up to help more people feel supported at work. We also discuss ways employees can feel seen and heard at work and break down stigmas to help create more awareness and education.

Together with her husband Kelly, who is autistic and has ADHD, they run their neurodiversity consultancy, which works with organisations to raise awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity in the workplace and works with parents and education settings around autism and ADHD.

Hester is also mum to her two children, who are autistic and have ADHD.

Check out Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

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I bring back two fantastic guests in today's episode: Rachel Harris and Jodie Hill. Both are trailblazing women in their respective industries, paving the way for more neurodivergent women to ask for what they need and create strong scaffolding to support them from burnout while also satiating their inner drive, ambition and big dreams.

We discuss recognizing and harnessing our ADHD preferences in our careers so we can bring our A-game to our purpose-driven careers without feeling exhausted and depleted by our brains.

Both Rachel and Jodie are inspiring female entrepreneurs, teaching us to harness our authentic selves to succeed in our careers alongside our ADHD.

Firstly, who knew talking about financial wellbeing and accounting could be this fascinating and inspiring? When you hear this episode, you'll see why I'm so giddy about it!

This week's first guest on The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast is Rachel Harris. Rachel is disrupting what it means to be an accountant, a business owner and an employer in 2023. She is a TEDx speaker, content creator, author, business owner and, most importantly... an accountant! She is passionate about free financial education for everyone.

During this week's podcast episode, we spoke about:

• Rachel being profoundly deaf and how she became so successful despite this challenge
• Communication preferences in business
• Financial fears
• Asking clients what they need
• Breaking down barriers of fear
• The trauma of not understanding money or accounts
• Asking for help without shame

Rachel has also generously shared two free resources with the listeners—her 'Accounting 101' video, which you can access here, and her 'Financial Wellbeing' video, which you can watch now by clicking here.

Running a business your way after an ADHD diagnosis...

I'm excited to introduce another true trailblazer in the law industry, an inspiring D&I advocate, mentor and successful businesswoman, Jodie Hill. Following her breakdown (which she now refers to as her breakthrough!), Jodie decided to set up her unique employment law firm, Thrive Law, where her values around mental health and diversity & inclusion would be the foundations of the firm and are embodied in everything she does.

Jodie is passionate about creating an environment where both she and her team can Thrive. Her mission is to educate and empower employers to create their own thriving cultures. You can buy Jodie's Thriving at Life journal here.

During this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Jodie chat about:

• How Jodie's burnout and breakdown manifested and why she set up her own law firm which prioritised people's wellbeing
• Prioritising prevention of mental breakdown and burnout in big corporates
• Creating new cultures to support diversity inclusion in the workplace
• Opening up and talking about mental health and neurodivergent late diagnoses
• Self-awareness of our energy and nervous system capacity to help our mental health
• Creating space and downtime to offset our overworking and hyperfocus
• Jodie's ADHD self-care and wellbeing tools
• Being your authentic self in a corporate setting

Look at some of Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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On this week's ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' episode, we revisit a clip from the profound episode with high-performance ADHD Coach Kim Raine about finding equilibrium and balance between our restless ADHD energy, relentless drive, and burnout.

As women with ADHD, we have an abundance of ideas, but thriving in business can feel difficult if we work against ourselves. By taking time to rest and make space while being consciously aware of where our energy and creativity levels are, we can be more successful and focused in our careers alongside ADHD.

Watch the Preventing ADHD Burnout Workshop that Kate mentions in the episode here.

During this episode, Kate and Kim speak about:

• How entrepreneurship and ADHD often go hand in hand
• How our brains thrive when we're creating
• How burnout and our ADHD nervous systems can hold us back in business
• How to thrive with ADHD in business
• By slowing down, we can achieve more with ADHD
• Hyperfocus and 'sprinting'
• Workaholism, ADHD and burnout
• Finding a balance between our ambitions and our energy levels
• The fear of burnout can hold us back in business
• Being enough with our relentless minds
• It's ok to stand still and celebrate our achievements
• Being ok with what we've done that day
• How 'Comparisonitis' and RSD can hold us back in the way we do business
• Trusting how we work even though it looks different to others
• Tailor-making a career that works for our creativity, cycles and energy

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner helping overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly-diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here

Follow Kate on Instagram here

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

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Newly diagnosed or looking for support while awaiting an ADHD diagnosis and desperate for more guidance?? If so, look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

On this new Summer ADHD WW mash-up episode, we have Kat Brown, a freelance journalist and commentator whose work on ADHD, mental health stigma, and other social and art commentary has appeared in national titles, including The Telegraph, Grazia, "Woman’s Hour," Woman’s Health, and The Times. Her new book, It's Not A Bloody Trend, a guide to living with ADHD in adulthood, is out now.

In this short clip we discuss:

• Accepting you don't have to do life perfectly, but make it work for you.
• Advocating for yourself and other people
• Being driven by purpose and passion

Here on the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm passionate about bringing you the conversations that improve health, wellbeing and quality of life after a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis.

In the second clip on today's episode, we discuss the latest findings in epigenetics, neuroscience and nutrition with Dr Rachel V. Gow, PhD, nutritional Neuroscientist, Neuropsychologist and Neurodevelopmental specialist with expertise in various mental health conditions and associative learning and behaviour differences.

In addition, Dr. Gow is also a registered nutritionist, has published 22 peer-reviewed book chapters and scientific papers. She has extensive knowledge of neurodiverse learning and behavioural differences and the effects of dopamine-enhancing brain‐selective nutrients. Her book - “Smart Foods for ADHD and Brain Health” - is available on Amazon.

In this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Rachel spoke about:

• The connection between diet and ADHD symptoms and behaviour
• The impacts of ultra-processed food on the ADHD brain and gut
• The effects of dietary sugar on the brain
• Addiction, dopamine and the ADHD brain
• Cooking whole foods and involving your children
• New findings that suggest Epigenetics play a role in ADHD
• Using lifestyle to support our epigenetics
• Implementing nutritional changes for an ADHD family
• Making changes in our lifestyle and nutrition to celebrate

Look at some of Kate's ADHD workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

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